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Reading is (Soooo Not) Fundamental

To follow up on the train wreck interviews involving our dear old Pageant Palin, she’s back at in again. When asked what written media contributed to shaping her world view, her royal hotness had this to say:

But check it out. Here are the transcripts from the rest of the interview that you didn’t see:

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Katie Couric: “So I don’t belabor the point, remind me again: what is it that you read?”

Gov. Palin: “Read? I read.”

Katie Couric: “OK. I get that. But the question is: what do you read?”

Gov. Palin: “Senator McCain is a maverick.”

Katie Couric: *Blink, Blink*

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OK. My part was purely satirical. But you get the point.

My mind is officially made up. Regardless of the outcome of this election, the Republicans are forever sworn enemies of mine. Insulting this country by putting a blithering idiot like George Bush on the Presidential block is one thing. Allowing McCain to put this dimwit on the ticket is straight unforgivable.

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9 comments on “Reading is (Soooo Not) Fundamental”

In a lot of respects, Sarah Palin is George Bush in a skirt. She can read a teleprompter as good as anybody. She can toss her accent in to sound like a “normal” person better than anybody. But once she has to answer questions off the cuff, she completely buckles – and indeed creates her own “isms”. Her “isms” aren’t as bad a Bush’s, in that she doesn’t make up her own words. But she starts rambling on about nothing because she doesn’t have an adequate response (see: Bush’s definition of “sovereignty”). But since the debate format will allow her to regurgitate responses she’s been fed by her coaches, I think she’ll do well tonight.

Did any of you catch CNN where Bay Buchanan came to Palin’s defense by saying that candidates aren’t supposed to speak with their minds if they want to connect with the American people? I almost fell out of my chair.

If this chick graduated with a degree in journalism but couldn’t name a single newspaper, maybe we should have her transcripts audited. Then again, she was a sports journalist (clearly a definitive qualification for the second highest political position in the country). Why would publications like…I don’t know…the Wall Street Journal, the Anchorage Press, USA Today…not come to mind? She could have even said that she DOESN’T read and it may have slid through the cracks. There are other ways to get the lowdown on the world besides publications. Yet she couldn’t even come up with one.

To use a sports metaphor (since that’s the only thing she seems to get) this was a slam dunk of a question. But she missed…again. God help us if they get elected.

Hey Darlin ,
I know your going to scoff at me but I really think that you should re think politics for your future,in some form or another ,you know more than a great deal of people on many subjects but this one seems to a full blown passion .
Who knows in a few years you may run for ??????? I would vote for you but I guess geography would cancel that out .(WINK)
HUGs Andre and Stay safe in the Big City ,God Bless
G♥

@ J. Alex: “But since the debate format will allow her to regurgitate responses she’s been fed by her coaches, I think she’ll do well tonight.”

The format selection definitely favors Palin. If she thought Katie Couric and Charlie Gibson were laying them on hard (easy questions if you ask me), she would’ve been slaughtered in a free-for-all.

If all else fails and Palin sucks, I imagine the conservatives will use Gwen Ifill’s book as an indication of bias. Ha!

@ MissKD: I dunno about Bristol. Anybody who would kick it with that Levi dude is pretty questionable themselves.

@ Natasha: As I mentioned in another post, many Americans actually DO want a President with whom they can relate. Stupid, but true. Me? I want somebody SMARTER than I am. But I guess that makes me no better than the French, right? 🙂

@ Cyn: I would’ve given Palin partial credit for even saying Sports Illustrated.

@ Greeny: “I know your going to scoff at me but I really think that you should re think politics for your future,in some form or another ,you know more than a great deal of people on many subjects but this one seems to a full blown passion .”